Alzheimer's disease is often measured in statistics: millions affected worldwide, cases rising sharply, costs climbing into the trillions. For families, the disease is experienced far more intimately.

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Nicholas Tonks, graduate student Yuxin Cen, and postdoctoral fellow Steven Ribeiro Alves found that blocking a protein called PTP1B helped mice ...

A new study has revealed that neural inhibition and balanced neural activity in a specific area of the brain is required for recognition memory. The findings could help provide better understanding of ...

Stress is the brain’s natural response to fear, but it often disrupts memory in the process, potentially impacting the possibility of memory loss. When preparing for a big presentation or taking a ...